[picklesman]

When I was studying music technology and using state of the art software synthesizers and sequencers, I got more and more into playing my acoustic guitar. There's a deep and direct connection and a pleasure that comes with it that computers (and now/eventually AI) will never be able to match.

(That being said, a realtime AI-based bandmate could be interesting...)

[inference-lord]

My son is an interesting example of this, I can play all the best guitar music on earth via the speakers, but when I physically get the guitar out and strum it, he sits up like he has just seen god, and is total awe of the sounds of it, the feel of the guitar and the site of it. It's like nothing else can compare. Even if he is hysterically crying, the physical isntrument and the sound of it just makes him calm right down.

I wonder if something is lost in the recording process that just cannot be replicated? A live instrument is something that you can actually feel the sound of IMO, I've never felt the same with recorded music even though I of course enjoy it.

I wonder if when we get older we just get kind of "bored" (sadly) and it doesn't mean as much to us as it probably should.

[vczf]

Mirror neurons?

[inference-lord]

What does this have to do with it?

[vczf]

I'm speculating that one would have more mirror neuron activation watching a person perform live, compared to listening to a recording or watching a video. Thus the missing component that makes live performance special.

[rightbyte]

The sound feels present with live music. Speakers have this synthetic far away feel no matter how good they are.

[tzs]

What about live music on non-acoustic instruments so it inherently comes through a speaker?

[inference-lord]

My son isn't even a toddler so I don't think it would possibly be "mirror neurons".

[_glass]

For me the guitar is like the keyboard I am writing on right now. It will never be replaced, because that is how I input music into the world. I could not program that, I was doing tracker music as a teenager, and all of the songs sounded weird, because the timing, and so on is not right. And now when I transcribe demos, and put them into a DAW, there seem to be the milliseconds off, that are not quite right. I still play the piano parts live, because we don't have the technology right now to make it sound better than a human, and even if we had, it would not be my music, but what an AI performed.

[throwaway14356]

I really briefly looked at AI in music, lots of wild things are made. It is hard to explain, one was generating a bunch of sliders after mimicking a sample from sine waves (quite accurately)